It doesn't really claim that though, does it? I thought it was clear it was a follow on from PA-RISC, though I may be filtering it through my own brain.
hawflakes•1h ago
Having briefly worked at HP on the IA64 effort IIRC the PA-RISC chips fabbed at Intel were the side-effect of the Itanium agreement. HP was owed a certain volume of chips and since Merced was very delayed they had to make those chips for HP.
sillywalk•3d ago
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/pa-risc/PA_RISC_2.0_Architectur... (2MB file)